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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

H. L. Mencken
Liberty, Auctions, Politics
"Prejudices: First Series". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1919.

The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

H. L. Mencken
Men, Enemy, Politics

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

H. L. Mencken
Freedom, Democracy, Politics

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

H. L. Mencken
Democracy, Politics, Honest
H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, andits salient virtuosi a gang of unmitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soothe and tickle the midriff, its incomparable services as a maker of entertainment.

H. L. Mencken
Art, Politics, Entertainment

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

H. L. Mencken
Political, Steel, Politics
H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.227, Vintage

The net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan.

H. L. Mencken
Yesterday, Speech, Politics

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